{"id":58667,"date":"2017-03-27T13:46:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58667"},"modified":"2017-03-27T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T12:46:44","slug":"turkish-citizens-abroad-to-start-voting-in-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-citizens-abroad-to-start-voting-in-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Citizens Abroad To Start Voting In Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Voting in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Denmark has begun on Monday and will last until April 9.<\/h2>\n<p>In Turkish missions in other countries, voting will start at various later dates but will also end on April 9.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3 million Turkish citizens living abroad who are eligible to vote in the referendum will vote in 120 Turkish missions in 57 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Voting has also started Monday in Istanbul&#8217;s Ataturk International and Sabiha Gokcen airports as part of the referendum on constitutional changes.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 12 ballot boxes have been placed at Ataturk International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The voting has started Monday at 8.00 a.m (0500GMT) and will last until April 16.<\/p>\n<p>In Turkey, 55.3 million people who are eligible to vote will cast their votes on April 16.<\/p>\n<p>The constitutional changes have been discussed since Erdogan was voted president in August 2014. The 18-article bill was passed by parliament in January.<\/p>\n<p>The reforms would hand wide-ranging executive powers to the president and the post of prime minister would be abolished. The president would also be allowed to retain ties to a political party.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes would see the minimum age for parliamentary candidates reduced to 18 and the number of deputies rise to 600.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Denmark has begun on Monday and will last until April 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,174,188],"tags":[418,77182],"class_list":["post-58667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-politics","tag-referendum","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}